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(Farrar, Straus, Giroux) This new collection of poems written by C.K. Williams, a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, covers a wide variety of subjects. Poems about animals and rural life are set against poems about shrapnel in Iraq and sexual stirrings on the Paris metro. Tying these poems together is their setting in the cool, spacious, book-lined place that is Williams’s consciousness. Williams is a lecturer with the rank of professor in the creative writing program at Princeton.